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Learn about the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagari script, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. See the table of modern and Western Arabic numerals, and the words for the cardinal number in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others. The block has 128 code points, and the character ढ़ is the 105th one in the block, representing the Devanagari letter "ra".
The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.
ISCII is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India, such as Devanagari, Bengali, and Malayalam. It uses a single 8-bit encoding with ATR codes to switch between scripts and display modes, and has been largely replaced by Unicode.
Learn about the different methods of transliterating Devanagari, an Indic script used for many languages of North India and Nepal, into Roman script. Compare IAST, Hunterian, ISO 15919, ASCII and other schemes with examples and features.
The Hindu–Arabic numeral system is a decimal place-value numeral system that uses a zero glyph as in "205". [1]Its glyphs are descended from the Indian Brahmi numerals.The full system emerged by the 8th to 9th centuries, and is first described outside India in Al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (ca. 825), and second Al-Kindi's four-volume work On the Use of the Indian ...
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. Learn about the core concepts, terminology, and history of cryptography, as well as its modern applications in computer science, information security, and digital media.
ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic communication that represents text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. It has 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, and it was developed in part from telegraph code and influenced by Unicode.